Getting started with Cassandra
Apache Cassandra™ is a massively scalable open source NoSQL database. Cassandra is perfect for managing large amounts of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data across multiple data centers and the cloud. Cassandra delivers continuous availability, linear scalability, and operational simplicity across many commodity servers with no single point of failure, along with a powerful dynamic data model designed for maximum flexibility and fast response times. For more information about Cassandra's architecture, please read this documentation: http://www.datastax.com/documentation/cassandra/2.0/cassandra/gettingStartedCassandraIntro.html If you want to give it a try without having to allocate a big amount of resource, you can use the pre-built Cassandra virtual machine which can be downloaded at https://s3.amazonaws.com/planetcassandra-downloads/Cassandra-2.0.6.ova 0. First, there are some terms in Cassandra data model you need to know in comparison with Relation...